apr 5

nick's week

started working with GEM this week...found a tutorial written by the person who currently maintains GEM and it is a good introduction!

link: https://puredata.info/downloads/gem/documentation/tutorial/primer/GEMtutorial.pdf
for my first try with GEM, i made a patch that renders a square object and changes the color randomly between cyan and yellow every 500ms. pretty exciting!
here's a silly gif of it too

second time messing with GEM, created a patch that renders a sphere and rotates it while changing the diameter.

I thought that I had GEM already installed, turns out I actually had GIMP, which is a blender thing...thus I spent a good bit of time trying to figure out how to install GEM on my macbook. I needed to enlist Logan's help with it, as it was pretty complicated, and in the end it turns out that it only works with Pd 32 bit version, so I had to install that. Eventually got it working well though.
I must say I like that Nick seems to begin the work before me, so it is nice to have the added resources to look into...that was indeed a nice written tutorial on GEM as an introduction.
I mostly worked off a Dr. Rafeal Hernandez tutorial on youtube: "PURE DATA: 27"
I created one large-ish patch, that has a few elements:
- A rotating cube, synced to a metronome
- A wav file (attached) of music, to which the rotating cube is (roughly) synced
- A video file (attached) that (after you select it from "openpanel") also syncs...although I am having issues here as my computer can't seem to handle the multiple medias all running at once

After putting files into their appropriate subfolders, and then testing things for presenting tomorrow, now all my GEM objects have vanished...I'm not sure what I did...hoping to get some clarity tomorrow about proper install, and where I went wrong...frustrating

http://cs.marlboro.edu/ courses/ spring2017/jims_tutorials/ pd/ apr_5
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